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1887 – Chinese Immigration Lowers Dramatically

Posted on January 30, 2017 by ProCon.org

“The Chinese Exclusion Act worked. In 1882, before it took effect, over 39,000 Chinese came to America. In 1887, Chinese immigration bottomed out at 10! While America’s population more than doubled between 1880 and 1920, the population of Chinese ancestry declined by over a third.”

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